Archive for 'Rock Climbing'
Dean Potter, World-Record BASE Jump
Any video with Dean Potter, high altitudes and no safety harness is gonna be good and this one doesn’t disappoint. Dean Potter is the American daredevil I blogged about a year ago, and he has a curious habit of climbing mountains without safety equipment, and either jumping off it, or slacklining it (tight-rope walking without [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2011 under Air Extreme, BASE Jumping, Get a Rope!, Rock Climbing.
Tags: Bodhi, daredevil, Dean Potter, Dean Potter Vs Felix Baumgartner, Felix Baumgartner, Point Break, slack-lining, wing-suit, world records
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Mike Wilson’s Sick 99 Foot Rope Jump
Oh my God, this just makes me wish it was summer time again. Mike Wilson and those evil peeps at Shreddy Times give us more ridiculous, bone-jarring rope jumping eye candy once again with this video of Mike doing a quadruple backflip into Lake Tahoe from 99 feet. So evil, and yet, so [...]
Posted: December 12th, 2010 under Get a Rope!, Rock Climbing.
Tags: cliffjumping, Lake Tahoe, Mike Wilson, Shreddy Times
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The Top Ten Hardcore Cliff Jumps On Earth
Ah, the joys of summer. Beers, barbecues, maybe some fishing, and/or a wee bit’ o diving off the cliff at your local swimming hole. Every year countless individuals (including yours truly) somehow find themselves standing at a rather uncomfortable altitude over a local body of water, which of course opens us to chiding, ribbing and [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2010 under Accidents, Diving, Rock Climbing.
Tags: cliffjumping, lists, tombstoning
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Wanna Hang Out?
This guy has some ridiculous free-climbing skills. No boots, no hooks, no ropes, nuthin. I bet he’s a devil with the ladies.
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Posted: July 19th, 2010 under Rock Climbing.
Tags: daredevil, free-climbing
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Climb and Jump (Off!) The Eiger
Quick, anyone who’s seen The Eiger Sanction, that 1975 Clint Eastwood cliffhanger, raise your hand! Thought so. Now, anyone who’s seen someone climb a 13,000 foot mountain without safety equipment, step forward. Right, now, who’s seen a man jump off that same mountain? Exactly. Dean Potter, the 38 year-old American daredevil is in pretty select [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2010 under BASE Jumping, Rock Climbing.
Tags: daredevil
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Rock Climbing and Kayaking Will Get You “Lucky”
Thanks to the quick-witted and jovial chaps at getoutdoors.com for blogging about this. They’re talking about a list posted on MSN UK about the ten hobbies that are most likely to get you some attention from the opposite sex. It seems men just can’t say no to a woman who lists “dancing” or [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2010 under Kayaking, Rock Climbing.
Tags: lists, sexiest hobbies
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